It didn't really happen, that's just an old tale.
Well, don't believe it. You don't catch me walking up to people on the street asking them "if they're saved" nor knocking on peoples doors. I'm like your Jew or neighborhood Muslim, I don't go walking up to random people trying to convert them. Or you might say I'm like most Catholics and Orthodox Christians in that way.
Even if one believes the story of Satan tempting Jesus in the desert is a work of fiction, the fact is works of fiction often have been used as literary methods of communicating moral lessons.
The moral lesson here with Satan tempting and quoting scripture to Jesus is that (aside from the fact even Satan can quote scripture) any wicked person can quote scripture to suit their purpose. That includes Republicans.
The Bible is full of moral lessons and it has dramatically impacted the historical development of what we term "Western Civilization" just as Hindu sacred scripture has influenced the historical development of India. Oh... many, many years ago one of the books I bought and read (I've read more books from the library than I've ever bought) was written by a Hindu Indian with the story set in modern times but it had a lot of Hindu theology interwoven in it. I could notice some but because I lack a great deal of understanding about Hinduism I am sure I missed a lot of its subtle features interwoven into the story. Great fictional novel though:
The Death of Vishnu.
The Bible in Genesis presents in story format a vulnerability humans have: in the scenes between brothers Cain and Able. Jealousy can ultimately lead to homicide.
Jealousy (excessive desire for some good another has) can lead to envy (feeling or belief that for you to rise the good in another must fall or be trampled over--often expressed in the need to run another down to others) and envy can lead o murder (unjustifiable killing).
Judging by your comment here and your energy used to follow me into a different thread about "Dope in America" or whatever its called, and the product of your comment, I'm hazarding a guess you are auditioning for the role of Cain and think of me as having taken the stage role as Able, yeah? Of course.
You have free will like I do. You have an eternal soul as I do. Imagine a drug addict has a body and life just as a non-drug addict does. Do not they both choose to do with their body and life as they wish, and does not results in the end ultimately fall on them?
When nailed to the cross beside Jesus we have a choice--free will--to assume the role of one of the criminals.
Jesus spoke of the two party American political system of his time against him. They were the "good people" they were "the righteous." They were the criminal on the cross that mocked him. But he asks them at one point in the New Testament, I think it was about John the Baptist, he said to them of the holier than thou two party system,
"How is it the prostitutes and sinners recognized John the Baptist as a good man but you all did not?" I paraphrased.
What lessons will we take from stories?
Folks, a bit of joking is fine, but lets at least make your post somewhat topical as well please
